Digest Hodler, April 27 – May 3 – Cointelegraph magazine

Best Week stories

Bitcoin is the issue of national security – Deputy Director of the CIA

Michael Ellis, deputy director of the agency, to the host of Bodcast Anthony Boxbrano, said that the CIA is increasingly integrating Bitcoin as a tool in its operations, and working with the encrypted currency is the issue of national security.

In the emergence of the market analyst and the investor Podcast Show, I told ElsPyiano that the Intelligence Agency is working with the application of the law to track BTC, which is a point of collecting data in anti -enlargement operations. Elis added:

“Bitcoin is here to stay – the cryptocurrency is here to stay. You know, more and more institutions adopt, and I think this is a great direction. It is clear that this administration was tending forward.”

Kraken tells how North Korea has discovered a job interview

Us Crypto Exchange Kraken detailed the North Korean hacker attempt to infiltrate the organization by applying for a work interview.

“What started as a routine recruitment process for an engineering role that quickly turned into an intelligence collection,” the company books In the May 1 blog post.

Krakin said that the red flags of the applicant appeared early in this process when they joined an interview under a different name from what they applied with and “sometimes turned between the voices”, apparently directed during the interview.

Instead of the applicant’s refusal to immediately, Kraken decided to submit it through the recruitment process to collect information about the tactics used.

The European Union for the Prohibition of Unknown Crown Accounts and Privacy Currencies by 2027

The European Union is scheduled to impose the anti -money laundering rules (AML) that will prohibit distinctive symbols that maintain privacy and unknown cryptocurrencies from 2027.

Under the new Money Laundering List (AMLR), credit institutions, financial institutions, and CASPS service providers (CASPS) will be banned from maintaining unknown accounts or processing cryptocurrencies that maintain privacy, such as Monero and ZCash.

Article 79 of AMLR determines a strict ban on anonymous accounts […]. Credit institutions, financial institutions and encrypted asset services providers are prohibited to maintain anonymous accounts, “according to the AML booklet. Published By the European encryption initiative.

TRADING Trading says where ETH decreases by 45 % YTD by 45 % YTD 45 % YTD ETHER “like memecoin”

Since the price of ETHER has fought in the first quarter of 2025, an investment company in the United States, Two Prime, has dropped its support for ETH and adopted only Bitcoin’s strategy.

After lending 1.5 billion dollars in loans in Bitcoin and Ether over the past 15 months, two Prime decided to get rid of ETH to focus only on BTC Asset Management and LENDING, the company Declare On May 1.

“ETH statistical trading behavior, value suggestion, and community culture have failed beyond a point worthy of engagement,” two Prime stated.

The company’s transformation into the Bitcoin approach comes only as ETH has lost 45 % of its value from year to date, with some optimists speculating that ETH may be close to the bottom and the opposite of its negative direction soon.

Movement laboratories suspend the co -founder after the resulting market turmoil

Movement Labs confirmed the comment of its co -founder, Rushi Manche, after the differences about the market maker deal in it.

The movement announced the suspension of Manch on May 2 x mailHe explained that “the decision was taken in light of the current events.” The decision follows the latest Coinbase decision to suspend the movement of the movement network (Move), indicating the failure of the symbol in meeting the standards of listing.

The comment came after a third party review was recently announced required Through the Movement Network Foundation in an agreement published by Manch with Renic – the latter helped in the intermediate agreement with the web3port market maker. GROOM Lake for Special Intelligence Company is conducting an investigation.

Winners and losers

At the end of the week, Bitcoin ((BTC)) It is 96,615 dollars, the ether ((Eth)) In $ 1,835 and Xrp At $ 2.20. The total number of market is at $ 3.01 trillion, According to To Coinmarketcap.

Among the 100 largest encrypted currencies, the three best winners of Altcoin from the week are the virtual protocol (hypothetical) In 83.35 %, Pencil Birds of Pencil (Penguin) In 33.75 % and Monero (Xmr) At 22.99 %.

The three most important losers per week are Etheina (Ena) In 17.56 %, Bitcoin SV (BSV) In 15.40 % and optimism (OP) In 14.12 %. For more information about encryption prices, be sure to read market analysis in Cointelegraph.

Most unforgettable quotes

“Our internal prediction is one million dollars by 2029. Bitcoin corresponds to the maximum gold market and the total treatment market by 2029.”

Andre DragoshDirector and Head of European Research at Bitwise

“This is what I would like to see if Bitcoin can follow today. Great kind pressure at 100Ks low.”

alphabtcCrypting analyst

“I think freedom of money is important, but you have freedom of money, you must have freedom of expression. Freedom of expression is a kind of bottom. If you don’t have it, nothing – no other freedom – works.”

Changpeng “CZ” zhaoFormer CEO of Shabis

“I decided not to apply for a MICA license because I need to protect users of 400 million+ us all over the world. They are not lucky like Europeans.”

Paulo ErdinoCEO of Tether

“I tell you, if the banks do not see what will happen, then it will be extinct within 10 years.”

Eric TrumpTrump CEO

“Regardless of whoever enters, we are in a better position than we were about a year ago.”

Amy Rose JudyCEO of the Digital Economy Council in Australia

Predicting the week

Bitcoin to a million dollars by 2029 fed by ETF and Gov’t Demand – BitWise Exec

Bitcoin’s institutional institutional adoption may provide “structural” flows needed to overcome the market value of gold and pay their price to more than one million dollars by 2029, according to the head of European research at Bitwise, André Dragosch.

He told Cointelegraph through Reaction Daily x spaces Display On April 30.

Gold is currently the largest asset in the world, with a value of $ 21.7 trillion. In comparison, the market value of Bitcoin is located at $ 1.9 trillion, making it the seventh largest asset in the world, According to To companymarkcap data.

Fud from the week

The US Treasury wants to cut Huione on relations with Crypto Crime

The US Treasury is seeking to prevent the Kambodia -based Huione Group from reaching the American banking system, accusing the country -sponsored Lazarus Group company in North Korea.

Financial crime enforcement network at the Ministry of Treasury Proposal On May 1 to prevent American financial institutions from opening or maintaining the accounts of the reporter or entitled or on behalf of the HUIONE group.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Payette said in a statement in a statement 1 May that the Huione Group group has established itself as “the favorite market for harmful electronic actors” such as the Lazarus Group, which stole billions of dollars from ordinary Americans.

The supporter Senator returns to Crypto to the Memecoin dinner for Trump-Report

Senator Senatea Lomes and another republic are said to be at least in Congress criticizing US President Donald Trump for the introduction of senior Maimon owners in a White House dinner tour.

According to the May 2 report, CNBC, Lummis He said The idea that the American president was providing exclusive access to himself and the White House for people who are ready to pay for “giving” [her] He stops. “It was not the only membership in the Republican Party, which criticizes Trump’s privileges, which was announced on April 23, almost three months after the launch of the then elected symbol Trump.

“I don’t think it will be appropriate for me to get people to come to the Capitol and take a tour,” said Republican Senator Lisa Moorkovsky.

The UK regulator is moving to restrict borrowing for encryption investments

The United Kingdom Financial Authority, the Financial behavior body (FCA), plans to prevent retail investors from borrowing money to finance their encryption investments.

According to To the Financial Times report, the ban on borrowing to finance the purchases of encryption is one of FCA’s encryption rules. David Gill, Executive Director of Payments and Digital Finance, told FT that “Crypto is a field for the potential growth of the United Kingdom, but it must be done correctly.” He added:

“To do this, we have to provide an appropriate level of protection.”

The best stories of the week magazine

Crypto wanted to topple banks, and now it’s in Stablecoin fighting

If you cannot overcome them, join them. Crypting companies have become banks, or similar to banks, to comply with the laws of Stablecoin in the United States, the European Union and Hong Kong.

Flags of the Japanese star, the red star, L2 associated with alibaba running at 100,000 TPS: asia Express

Solana Memecoin from Jav Porn Star Yua Mikami targets Chinese investors, AT Digital Att Digital Frames Ethereum Layer 2 to join RWA Race, and more.

ZK-PROBLIKS brings smart contracts to Bitcoin-Bitcoinos and Starknet

Nearly $ 2 trillion of Bitcoin originally can be used in Defi if Starknet and Bitcoinos succeed in adding smart nodes via ZK.